Welcome to the Ilosaarirock website!

Here you can find all you want to know
about Ilosaarirock Festival, a time-honoured rock festival that takes place
every mid-July in the city of Joensuu in Eastern Finland.

Each year during the three-day festival weekend some 100 bands from both Finland
and abroad take to the Festival's five stages and numerous clubs. The variety of
genres available is wide, from jazz to heavy metal and from reggae to the
brightest stars of Finnish rock'n'roll scene. Ilosaarirock's supreme line-up,
uniquely relaxed atmosphere and immaculate organising have all contributed to
the fact that the festival has been sold out already in advance for an entire
decade now.

The first news of the summer's programme will be released on February 13th 2008,
along with the new design of the festival's website. The tickets will be on
sale from May onwards.